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Nicaragua
Sanctions caused Nicaragua to lose over US$1.4 billion between 2018 and 2021 in funding from the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), impacting infrastructure projects, child nutrition and development programs, and access to safe drinking water in rural areas. Senate Bill 1881 and House Resolution 6954 would cripple Nicaragua’s economy and reverse steady progress made in reducing poverty and improving human development indicators.
Venezuela
U.S. sanctions, particularly on Venezuela’s oil sector since 2017, led to a 99% drop in government revenue, causing food shortages, devastating the country’s health sector, and causing 40,000 excess deaths in just one year. One bill before Congress would codify sanctions on certain sectors of Venezuela’s economy, while Senate Bill 995 would restrict other countries from even trading with Venezuela.
Cuba
The blockade of Cuba has cost the island nation more than a trillion dollars over the past six decades. This cost has increased dramatically since the spurious addition of Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list, leading to the most serious humanitarian crisis in the island’s history. The U.S. Congress is considering House Resolution 314 to codify Cuba’s placement on the SSOT list.
Resources
- Unilateral coercive measures as a critical impediment to the realization of the right to development (United Nations)
- Sanctions Research Platform (United Nations OHCHR Library)
- Geopolitical Map of Sanctions (Venezuelan Anti-Blockade Observatory)
- Unilateral coercive measures and human rights (Alfred de Zayas)
- UN Charter, UN credibility and unlawful unilateral coercive measures (Alfred de Zayas)
- Legal Experts’ Open Letter to Biden: End U.S. Sanctions (undersigned)
- The case for Resolution 943: why annulling the Monroe Doctrine is important (James Phillips)
- New sanctions could impoverish and destabilize Nicaragua (Alliance for Global Justice)
- A War Without Bombs: The Social, Political and Economic Impact of Sanctions Against Venezuela (Venezuelanalysis)
- Economic, Commercial Embargo Imposed by United States Against Cuba Harmful, Violates UN Charter (United Nations General Assembly)
- Tumba el Bloqueo: Cuba’s Report (Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Relations)
- One hour of U.S. blockade causes Cuba over $575,683 in damages (Resumen News)
- Cuba’s economic crisis: U.S. sanctions and the problem of “overcompliance” (Le Monde Diplomatique)
- Crude reality: Sanctions against the Venezuelan oil industry (Venezuelanalysis)
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